Lausanne District, Switzerland Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Hexatrek
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- Jul 10, 2023, 10:05 AM
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 369 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Ouchy 46.505, 6.62666746°30’18” N 6°37’36” E
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Fechy
July 10, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We have had a lovely couple of days with Pierre-Yves and Claudia. They were incredibly kind. Evenings were a bit dangerous as Pierre-Yves is a very generous host.
Hopefully we can return the favor soon.
Waiting to catch ferry to France and the AlpsRead more
Traveler I would turn into a croissant 🥐
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Traveler 😂😂 that did look like a tasty spread
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Traveler Yes you need to combine with lots of walking. can't understand how they all stay slim.
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Traveler we are not fit, but we hide quite well! 😜
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Traveler Wow yum, just as well you are walking a long way after that 🥖😊
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Traveler I think I’ll Walk
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- Jun 8, 2023, 8:31 AM
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 379 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Ouchy 46.506817, 6.6268346°30’25” N 6°37’37” E
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Day 5 - Pres de Vidy to Vevey
June 8, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The day began with waterfront walk. There were lots of people out exercising and going to work. I met #trailangels Stephan and Monica who bought me an ice cream and we have a neat chat about a charity they are involved in #Help-for-Hope. Then the day got reasonably hard as it was straight up not just one but twice. It felt like I climbed Everest but it was only a total of 500m ( I’m sure the sun wasn’t as hot as in the vineyards. 26.6km todayRead more
Traveler Wonderful to meet you. Take care ♥️
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Traveler Nice one
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Traveler Carolyn Are you not posting as haven't seen anything of late
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Traveler Yes Carolyn we are getting worried
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Carmel Carlsen Via Francigena - part 1
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- Jun 11, 2023, 5:29 PM
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 369 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Ouchy 46.507226, 6.62785746°30’26” N 6°37’40” E
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Day 53 - Cossonay to Lausanne
June 11, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The day started warm. Even at 5 a.m., I was quite comfortable sitting outside before the sun came up, with only my slides on and no jacket! I had a late start because it was Sunday (and breakfast is not served before 8 a.m.) and was grateful when the roadside walking, through farmland, changed to riverside walking (La Venoge). I got to Lake Geneva at 1:45 p.m. and got to walk almost 9 km along its shores. I don't know why, but I was surprised to see swans on the lake. I saw a terrific number of people today (the most I've seen this trip). There were loads of people all along the path today, walking, running, cycling - all getting out in nature on the weekend. Of course, being a beautiful, warm day (and the weekend), Lake Geneva was a big attraction. It was very hard to pick my photos today as I took so many. Note: My waymarkers are now a yellow diamond with a black border and are nowhere near as frequently as I would like. I have to refer to the app constantly! P.S. I look at those mountains and feel very intimidated. I weary today. P.S.S. the only downside was the SWARMS of midges or gnats that were all along the lake path!Read more
Traveler Switzerland certainly looks like a very beautiful country.
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Carmel Carlsen It is very beautiful and the weather so far has been perfect.
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Traveler Carmel your descriptions make me want to do the VF more so with these photos. 🤗
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Carmel Carlsen Thanks, Bruce 🙂
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Paris-Londres à vélo!
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- May 8, 2024, 12:25 PM
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 438 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Lausanne Gare 46.514929, 6.63101546°30’54” N 6°37’52” E
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Let's go!!!
May 8 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Ça y est! Après 2 moins de planning, de réservations, de tracés sur google maps et Qgis, d'achats de vélos, de clés, de housses de transport (tgv de merde), d'entraînements, de démontage de vélos et d'emballage, nous sommes enfin dans le train de Lausanne vers Paris! Tout se concrétise petit à petit devant nos yeux, et tout ce qu'il nous reste à faire c'est d'arriver en un morceau avant de pédaler bien sûr.
En guise de bonus, pour vous cher•e lecteur•ice, nous allons chaque jour ajouter une chanson du jour, histoire de vous inviter avec nous pour voir quelle musique joue dans nos têtes durant ce voyage!
Chanson du jour : Top of the world - The CarpentersRead more
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Traveler Coucou Simon et Solenn, vous faites un "tour de France"??
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Traveler Coucou tatie ! On par direction Paris pour commencer notre périple depuis là bas ! On fait comme LE tour de France tu vas voir ! 😁😁
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Traveler Vous partez de Paris ??
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Traveler Der Weg nach Santiago
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- Apr 20, 2023, 2:10 PM
- 🌧 7 °C
- Altitude: 493 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne 46.521667, 6.63166746°31’18” N 6°37’54” E
Day 51
Lausanne
April 20, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
In Lausanne angekommen besuchen wir zunächst die wunderschöne Kathedrale, wo wir auch einen Stempel bekommen. Anschließend statten wir der nächsten Buchhandlung einen Besuch ab, weil Jonas nach einem bestimmten Reiseführer für den nächsten Abschnitt des Weges sucht - leider haben sie ihn nicht auf Lager, aber er kann ihn bestellen und in ein paar Tagen in Genf abholen, wenn wir dort sind. Es fühlt sich lustig an, mit Rucksack und Wanderstab zwischen den Regalen mit Reiseführern umherzuwandern. Die komischen Blicke der Leute machen mir schon lange nichts mehr aus.
Danach regnet es stärker und wir freuen uns schon sehr auf unsere Unterkunft: eine weitere Caminofreundin von Jonas, die gerade auf Urlaub ist, lässt uns in der Stadt in ihrer Wohnung schlafen! Ich bin unglaublich dankbar, dass ich dank Jonas zu solchen Unterkünften komme. Abends kochen wir uns ein leckeres Curry mit Reis.Read more
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Traveler Muss ein super Typ sein, dieser Jonas😉
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Traveler So super scheinbar, dass ich schon eine Woche vorher von ihm gehört hab 😂
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Traveler Ja, sag ich auch!
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Traveler Via @ 70
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- Aug 22, 2023, 9:16 PM
- 🌙 28 °C
- Altitude: 518 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne 46.524872, 6.62967846°31’30” N 6°37’47” E
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Lausanne 16 miles
August 22, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Dreadful night. Hot, sticky, noisy, airless. Sometimes camping isn’t as much fun as you think it should be.

Off sharp as I was due to meet a young lady later. Temperature lovely for walking until the sun came up.

Then another hot one. Forecast is for another couple of hot days and then start to reduce. By Sunday it might be 14C cooler. Can’t wait!

The signs have completely changed in Switzerland. No more of the French signs with their Via Francigena symbols or Red and White flashes for the GR145. Even worse is the loss of the red and white crosses to indicate the wrong way. Now I need to know the name of the next place I am going to and hope that the Swiss have decided to mark a route going there. They have nice big signs listing all sort of places. After that they have large yellow diamond symbols to indicate the way. Trouble is they show the way to something. You don’t know it is the way you want, you just know it is the way to somewhere. And if you do go off route there is just a slow realisation that you haven’t seen any signs for ages to give you a clue that things are not going well.

Reached Lake Geneva. Looked lovely with the Alps on the far side. Long walk along the lakeside, feeling very hot and sticky, carrying that damn great bag, passing all the young things lying about, wearing not a lot and looking a whole lot more comfortable than I was feeling.

Reached Lausanne and then started walking uphill to get to the hotel. Passed a chemist where I got the temperature confirmed. Because the footprints automatically show the temperature for the time and place that I post (usually after 10pm) it has been suggested that I have been exaggerating the heat. Believe me I can tell the difference between backpacking in 26C and 36C.

This city must be about the hilliest I have ever been to. All up, down and then back up again. Managed (just) to get to the hotel, drop the bag off, quick shower, change of clothes and off to the train station to meet the gaffer. By the time we got back to the hotel, via a wee ice cream halt, I needed another shower and change.

Basic, but pricey Vietnamese dinner to follow. One course and a bottle of water got rid of £70. Of course, paying for two doesn’t help.Read more
Traveler Feel for you with this heat. It’s 36c for us in Venosc which is just a few miles away from you. Pity we could almost have popped by to say hello as we are in Morges on Friday visiting friends who live there. Suspect you will be long gone by then. Say hi to Glynis.
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Traveler Sorry Paul. In Aigle by Friday.
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Traveler Swiss Sabbatical
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- Jul 16, 2024
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Altitude: 1,243 ft
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Ouchy 46.506434, 6.62700946°30’23” N 6°37’37” E
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Travel Day to Lausanne
July 16 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Yesterday was largely a travel and chore day. We checked out of the hotel in Grindelwald, caught the train to Interlocken, and then settled in for a long scenic train ride on the Golden Pass Express to Lausanne.

Laura hustled off to the Laundromat, while Caty and I took the metro over to Ouchy and checked into our hotel. We had a simple lunch at a Kebab stand, and walked along the pier looking at boats on lake Geneva, and seeing the Olympic clock.

Shortly after Laura rejoined us, it was time to take Caty over to Geneva to catch her flight to Rome to spend the next few weeks in Italy with her dad. I seem to have caught my obligatory vacation-cold, so I stayed in the hotel for a nice nap. When Laura made it back, we enjoyed dinner at the hotel's restaurant. You can definitely tell we've arrived in the French-speaking portion of Switzerland, as the menu changed from sausage/potatoes to a more varied selection. We enjoyed a bottle of wine alongside dinner, which made it a great meal.

After dinner we took a brief stroll along the waterside before calling it a night.Read more
Traveler Watch that girl Alex! You know she's a sucker for adventure😉
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Traveler Schweizer Alpen 2023
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- Aug 16, 2023, 9:26 AM
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 370 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Ouchy Olympic Museum 46.507088, 6.63364746°30’26” N 6°38’1” E
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Last Step - Olympia Museum Lusanne
August 16, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Irgendwie war mir nicht nach bummeln in der vollen Stadt, dafür hat mich das olympische Museum mit seiner Parkanlage am See angezogen.

Das war eine sehr gute Idee!

Obwohl das Museum schon 30 Jahre besteht ist es hochmodern und spannend aufgebaut. Ich war teilweise richtig gerührt von den Geschichten und Entwicklungen, die man sehen kann. Und wieder hatte ich eine super nette Begegnung mit einem amerikanischen Sportler in meinem Alter. Wir sind uns 4 mal im Haus begegnet und jedes Mal verquatscht 😀

Ach wie gut, dass ich inzwischen die „Angst“ verloren habe, englisch zu sprechen.

Nun sitze ich am Bahnhof und warte auf meinen Zug 🥹Read more
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Traveler Tolle Idee in dieses Museum zu gehen!! Das sieht wirklich interessant aus. Und ich freue mich aufregend, dass Du in Sachen englisch-Sprechen immer selbstbewusster wirst!! 😁
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Traveler Ich finde es süß wieviel Mühe man sich mit den Ringen gegeben hat.
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Traveler Grande Traversée des Alpes (1)
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- Jul 22, 2024, 9:43 PM
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 369 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Vidy 46.515517, 6.59741146°30’56” N 6°35’51” E
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Anreise in vielen Etappen
July 22 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
1. Hiobsbotschaft am Morgen: Christians Flug wurde gecancelt. Er ist dann also mit dem Zug gereist.
Wir haben verschiedene Verkehrsmittel genutzt: den ICE bis Hamburg Hbf., zweimal die S-Bahn zum Flughafen, wo wir Gesine getroffen haben (und Norberts Rucksack dreimal durchleuchtet wurde, weil er gleich zwei Feuerzeuge dabei hatte 🙈 - danach wusste er aber genau, was sich wo befindet 😂), Flug mit Swiss Air nach Genf, wieder mit dem Zug nach Lausanne (dort hat Christian uns schon erwartet) und schließlich zu Fuß zum Campingplatz direkt am Genfer See (und hinterm Sitz des IOC).Read more
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Traveler Solo Way
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- Jul 26, 2023, 12:10 PM
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 459 m
- Switzerland Vaud Lausanne Lausanne Gare 46.517426, 6.62933846°31’3” N 6°37’46” E
Day 4
Good Morning Lausanne
July 26, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Nach dem der Morgen wieder langsam startete, alles getrocknet und verstaut war, machte ich mich auf den Weg nach Lausanne. Viele Menschen mit Fahrrädern voll Gepäck kreuzten meinen Weg. Kurz war ich traurig, sogar neidisch. Eigentlich war ich nie fürs Laufen gemacht. Mein Fahrrad und ich hatten da gewiss ne viel innigere Beziehung. Doch seit Long Covid gefallen dem Herz und der Lunge dieses Wanderzeug einfach besser 😝 und irgendwie verflog mein Neid wieder relativ schnell und ich war nicht mehr traurig darüber, meine Tour nicht mit dem Rad gemacht zu haben. Einige wunderbare Orte wären mir verwehrt geblieben und ich hätte wohl letztlich doch viel mehr Asphalt als Wälder gesehen. Zu Fuß gelangt man doch eher an diese versteckten und verwunschenen Örtlichkeiten.
Zu Lausanne:
Also wenn man Anfahren am Berg üben oder seine Waden in Form bringen möchte, dann sollte man hier her. Höchstwahrscheinlich gibt es in dieser Stadt einfach keine ebenen Straßen.
Recht lustig, dass ich mir vor Ankunft schon den höchsten Punkt der Stadt als Ziel gesetzt habe. Da musste ich nun durch. Und es hat sich gelohnt. Lausanne ist nen kleinen Trip wert. Hätte auch gerne dort übernachtet. Aber mit dem Zelt in der Stadt ist es etwas schwierig und ansonsten ist es hier ziemlich teuer. Ich hätte selbst nicht mit gerechnet, doch die Unterkünfte in Genf sind günstiger. Also fahre ich jetzt mit der Bahn dorthin und genieße den Genfer See am Abend ☺️Read more
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